Exposed: Pardon, Regulatory Relief And Assorted Favors For Trump Ballroom Donors
The Washington Post found 67 donations over $10,000, and at least $77 million came from donors who asked to remain anonymous.
- A leaked White House ballroom donor list reveals Isabela Herrera pledged $2.5 million to the fund, months before President Donald Trump pardoned her father, Julio Herrera Velutini.
- Isabela Herrera previously gave $3.5 million to a Trump-aligned political committee following the 2024 election, then pledged $2.5 million to the ballroom fund in September 2025 and paid an initial $835,000 installment.
- Prosecutors reduced Julio Herrera Velutini's charges to a misdemeanor in August 2025 through a plea deal, followed by Trump's pardon in January 2026, four months after his daughter's ballroom pledge.
- The $333 million fund includes contributions from Apple, Nvidia, and Rocket Companies, often following favorable federal agency decisions, though firms deny links between gifts and government sanctions.
- White House spokesman Davis Ingle defended the contributors as a "wide array of great American companies and generous individuals" while dismissing allegations of conflicts of interest as baseless.
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Donors to US President Donald Trump's large and controversial ballroom project have benefited from regulatory decisions, government contracts, and, in one case, a pardon for a family member. This is revealed in a secret list published by the Washington Post of donors to the total of $330 million they donated. Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos also appears on the list.
Exposed: Pardon, Regulatory Relief And Assorted Favors For Trump Ballroom Donors
President Donald Trump's secret White House ballroom donor list has leaked, revealing that some of the $333 million comes from companies with lucrative government business interests and a $2.5 million pledge by the daughter of a banker who Trump later pardoned.Internal fundraising records obtained by The Washington Post identify 67 donations over $10,000 and show at least $77 million came from donors who requested to stay anonymous. The report s…
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El CarabobeñoHerrera Velutini was accused in 2022 by the Department of Justice of helping finance the campaign of the then governor of Puerto Rico, Wanda Vázquez
Payday at the US President. Geleak documents now show who raised the total 333 million dollars for Donald Trump's ballroom project at the White House and what business entanglements are behind it.
The White House has raised more than $330 million to perform the works thanks to private donations. Learn more: Trump's Ballroom Works Hit the Nuclear Bunker Built Under the White House by Bush and Obama
Isabel Herrera had already contributed $3.5 million to PAC MAGA Inc before the presidential pardon.
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